Hello all,
As you will quickly see I'm very new to Linux but not to networking. I am in the process of setting up a Apache Web Server on Ferdora Core 2. My ISP blocks port 80 so I have it listen on port 8080. It was working for about a week but know I get " The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost.
The access logs on the Apache are clean. I'm not getting any errors messages in the otther and have shut down the firewall. When doing configtest I get no syntex errors, I have verified Apache is up and running. Mozzilla is set for direct connect, I've checked file permissions also. When running nmap I see it is listening. I have even reinstalled and get the same message. I have been working on this for several days now and I'm getting no where fast. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thank You






]# nmap 192.168.100.3

Starting nmap 3.50 ( at 2005-08-26 13:48 EDT
Interesting ports on Apache. (192.168.100.3):
(The 1654 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
111/tcp open rpcbind
443/tcp open https
8080/tcp open http-proxy
32770/tcp open sometimes-rpc3

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.158 seconds
[#
[#
]# /sbin/service httpd configtest
Syntax OK
[]# /sbin/service httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: [ OK ]


]# rpm -qa | grep httpd
httpd-manual-2.0.49-4
httpd-2.0.49-4
system-config-httpd-1.2.0-3
[]#

Run nmap from outside of your network to see if your ISP caught on and is blocking port 8080 now as well..

Can you provide info about your network? ADSL router (like me)? Trickyid said "from outside of your network". Check it out if you are inside your network.

Thanks for the suggestions.
I have verizon FIOS, you got to love the speed and it's never dropped not even for a minute since I've had it but it looks like they are blocking everything.
I've run nmap and also used other utitlies and nothing gets thru.

nmap -sU 71.241.234.188

Starting nmap 3.50 ( [ ) at 2005-08-27 15:29 EDT
All 1478 scanned ports on 71.241.xxx.xxx are: filtered

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 91.253 seconds
]#



nmap -sT 71.241.234.188

Starting nmap 3.50 ( [/nmap/] ) at 2005-08-27 17:17 EDT
All 1659 scanned ports on 71.241.xxx.xxx are: filtered

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 70.220 seconds
[#

Ok it has been confirmed my ISP is bloking port 8080 as well.

If they are going to keep blocking ports, your probably better off just getting a cheap hosting account. Or you could just keep using up ports, if they keep blocking it, call and cancel, find a new provider.

Is it possible for ports to be block in one direction?